Topband: radials and shunt fed tower

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

You need to connect radials and tower base and shield all together.
Also pay the usual attention to dissimilar metals by use of fasteners
made for connecting copper to galvanized steel, doing some corrosion
prevention, etc.

If you have already done matching with one of the above unconnected,
you most likely will have to redo the matching.

73, Guy.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:33 PM, luc kerkhofs <luckerkhofs at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: luc kerkhofs <luckerkhofs at yahoo.com>
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 5:25:24 PM
> Subject: radials and shunt fed tower
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> Hello all,
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> I just got active again after a few years of absence .
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> I managed to shunt feed my 90 foot tower wih  40 m 3 el  beam as toploading .
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> Now my question is should I connect all the radials I put on the ground to the base of the tower or should I just connect the braid of the coax to the tower base and leave the radials
> just connected to each other but not connected to tower base and coax braid ?
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> 73
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> Luc
> ON4IA
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